Children’s author Julia Heckathorn adopted Boomeroo at three week old and, two years on, the animal’s wearing clothes and has her own heated house in the garden.

‘She makes this little sound, like an excited chortle, just as kangaroos would do in the wild to locate their mum,’ said Ms Heckathorn, 28, from Virginia in the US.

Julia adopted Boomeroo from a kangaroo farm in Texas when she was just three weeks old (Picture: Caters)

The adorable marsupial loves to wear clothes and even has her own wardrobe full of tops and dresses that Julia picks out from baby stores for her.

Julia is a children’s author and has written a series of educational books called Search for the Hidden Clover.

Together Julia and Boomeroo visit schools together they help teach children about nature.

As she grew bigger Julia and Jason built a temperature controlled barn in their garden where Boomeroo now sleeps with a number of the couple’s other educational animals including; an anteater called Noche, four sugar gliders and a cat called Larry.